State v. Cruz

691 S.E.2d 47 (2010)

STATE of North Carolina

v.

Rajohn Almann CRUZ.

No. COA09-386.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

April 6, 2010.

Duncan B. McCormick, Lillington, for Defendant-Appellant.

Attorney General Roy Cooper, by Assistant Attorney General Sandra Wallace-Smith, for the State.

STEPHENS, Judge.

Rajohn Almann Cruz ("Defendant") appeals as a matter of right from his convictions for second-degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury.[1] On appeal, Defendant argues that the trial court erred when it refused his request for a jury instruction of voluntary manslaughter…